Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the military hospital.

He shook off the media scrutiny, the turmoil he brought upon his family and the rust of being away from the game he loved to step on the first tee at the Masters and send a lazar down the fairway on the first tee.